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Speaker 1: Drake, how you doing.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Just a thought on what you guys were able to do?

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Speaker 1: You were here last year, you know, fourteen wins, you

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs. You'll host the Chargers here next weekend

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Speaker 1: in a first round matchup. How excited are you about?

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Speaker 1: What was it you guys were able to accomplish today

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Speaker 1: and all season long?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Then we've come a long way.

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Speaker 2: I think we uh, you know, it takes everybody, took

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Speaker 2: everybody in the locker room, took every coach, and I

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Speaker 2: think it starts out that's what we wanted. One of

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Speaker 2: the goals host home playoff games, and this is what

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Speaker 2: we wanted to So it's a winner go home and

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Speaker 2: the mentality think mentality changes from that standpoint. But really

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Speaker 2: I think we just take playing like us and we've

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Speaker 2: built this identity and played to it, and I think

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Speaker 2: good things happen.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Drake, do you have any kind of relationship.

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Speaker 4: With Justin Herbert and what do you like about him

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Speaker 4: as a quarterback?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't. I don't know if I've met Justin.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I have. I know him through people

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Speaker 2: and her great things. Obviously, I love this game. I

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Speaker 2: love the way he throws the football, throws at a

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Speaker 2: really high level. He can make plays and you know,

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Speaker 2: on the move, can throw make plays off platform, he

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Speaker 2: can you know, launch it. And I think just the

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Speaker 2: way he holds himself and cares about his teammates and

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Speaker 2: it's really about the team and not about himself. I

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Speaker 2: have a lot of respects for Justin and how he

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Speaker 2: you know, plays the game and plays at every high level.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Drake in a likely MVP season, I'm innterested in

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Speaker 5: what do you feel like that your greatest accomplishments were,

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Speaker 5: you know, this year, whether it's from most satistical standpoint

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Speaker 5: with the QB rating or whatever, You're able to accomplish

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Speaker 5: what stands out to you and you're the most proud

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Speaker 5: of in your career.

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Speaker 2: I think fourteen wins, that's the first thing comes to mind.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen wins and probably eight no on the road, that's

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Speaker 2: probably the biggest thing. I'm most proud of going the

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Speaker 2: road eight times and coming out, you know, victorious all

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Speaker 2: of them, so that was pretty cool. And from there,

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Speaker 2: I think just the ability to get a lot of

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Speaker 2: people involved. I think that's one of the best things

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Speaker 2: about our offense. We get a lot of people involved,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people catching the passes, a lot of

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Speaker 2: people scoring touchdowns. You know, a lot of guys that

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Speaker 2: are making plays and at different parts of the game.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's one of the toughest things about

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Speaker 2: the ways to defend us. So that's probably what I'm

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Speaker 2: most part.

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Speaker 3: Of, Drake. Christian just mentioned, you guys might not even

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Speaker 3: enjoy this one tonight because obviously the playoffs are here

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Speaker 3: next weekend. What was the messaging in the locker room

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Speaker 3: as far as that goes, You know, understanding it's a

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Speaker 3: whole new season. Where's your mind at in that regard?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what coach Abel just hit on at the end,

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Speaker 2: it's a new, different, different ballgame. It's a it's winner

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Speaker 2: go home. And that's what you know, you laid out

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Speaker 2: off on the line. This is what you play in

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Speaker 2: the NFL for playoff games, playoff games at home and

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Speaker 2: a home crowd. And I hope you guys have opponent

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Speaker 2: coming in. I know they got some great players and

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Speaker 2: we obviously we saw them here last year, so I

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Speaker 2: think they they're a good team.

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Speaker 4: Drake.

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Speaker 6: You guys are up fourteen to nothing. Everything looked great.

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Speaker 6: Then it was fourteen to ten. And things were stumbling

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Speaker 6: a little bit. What made you guys able to find

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Speaker 6: your rhythm again after that and score twenty four straight

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Speaker 6: points to end the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just staying you know, true to us.

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Speaker 2: I think offense and staying on track, getting ahead of

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Speaker 2: the chains. I think the first you know, three down,

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Speaker 2: we had three trading completions. I gotta find a way

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Speaker 2: to make some plays and and now have three incompletions.

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Speaker 2: And then from there we had the field goal they

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Speaker 2: got blocked and then just wouldn't play played true to us,

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Speaker 2: you know, and that wasn't really something that they were

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Speaker 2: doing executing played a lot of zone tonight. So just

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Speaker 2: executing ver zone, getting good spacing and find ways to

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Speaker 2: catch it and get up field. And from there our

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Speaker 2: defense you know, made a you know, some big plays

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Speaker 2: and that uh come out of half. The interception was huge,

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Speaker 2: and we just didn't stop from there.

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Speaker 4: Drake, how would you describe Romaderie Stevenson's impact of late

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Speaker 4: and now the opportunity to use him in the passing

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Speaker 4: game the way you have the last few weeks complimenting

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Speaker 4: what Trayvon's able to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a tough back. He can move, he's he's uh,

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Speaker 2: he's agile. He's got a little jump cut two foot

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Speaker 2: jump cut that I just you know, love watching on film.

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Speaker 2: He just makes people miss like that. And he catch

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Speaker 2: got great hands, he's smart, he does uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: blocks some protection unbelievable this year. He always tell my

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Speaker 2: own something I really do. I do him. He's done

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Speaker 2: a great job. And then from there he just because

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Speaker 2: we're trying to have backs that can do it in

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Speaker 2: all three phases. You're running football, catching football, and blocking,

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Speaker 2: and I think him and Travion have done a great

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Speaker 2: you know, another one. So having three backs that can

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Speaker 2: do that, and Andre is just you know, you guys

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Speaker 2: see him around here. He's as cool as can be

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Speaker 2: and and calm and chill, and he's a great player

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Speaker 2: in this league.

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Speaker 6: Final question, Drake, you mentioned the fourteen wins being the

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Speaker 6: accomplishment that you seized on the most.

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Speaker 5: This team won four games last year.

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Speaker 2: I won four of the year before that.

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Speaker 1: How did this?

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Speaker 5: How did this happen? How did this transformation happen so quickly?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it starts with some top down I

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Speaker 2: think from the craft to them deciding to high coach

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Speaker 2: able to you know, kind of bringing him in here

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Speaker 2: and just really just buying into what he was coaching

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Speaker 5: Us to believe in.

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Speaker 2: And I think from there it's you know, us players

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Speaker 2: that a got some new players in here, some new

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Speaker 2: faces that I think that from the organization has really

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Speaker 2: jelled well together. You know, you enjoyed being around these guys,

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Speaker 2: you know, I know defensive guys will and enjoy being

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Speaker 2: around them. I don't think it's really any uh you know, me,

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Speaker 2: me me. I think the most me MEI me, you'll

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Speaker 2: saw this year is just getting some guys some incentives

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Speaker 2: out there tonight that was probably the most and that's

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Speaker 2: just uh, something that they've earned. And I think from there,

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Speaker 2: everybody's pulls for each other. You know, we're trying to

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Speaker 2: get off the sideline up to pump each other up.

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Speaker 2: And it's always you know, it's never a doubt in

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Speaker 2: works all three phases. We blo a loud belief each

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Speaker 2: other and we hang out and enjoy being around each other.

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Speaker 7: Hi, Drake, I'm just curious, speaking of incentives, Stefan Diggs

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Speaker 7: hit an incentive for going over one thousand receiving yards

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Speaker 7: this season. I asked him a better but I'm just

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Speaker 7: curious for a guy who's coming back from an ACL

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Speaker 7: injury to now have the season he's had, Just what

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Speaker 7: has his impact on this team meant to you personally

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Speaker 7: and just what has he shown throughout this season to

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Speaker 7: be able to do to reach this accomplishment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, first off, credit Steph for his ability to bounce

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Speaker 2: back and heel up from a from an injury like

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Speaker 2: that and such a short period of time. And really

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Speaker 2: since the time I met him. First time I met

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Speaker 2: him and I got the receivers you got in the offseason,

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Speaker 2: and you invited him thinking, now, okay, we'll see who knows,

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Speaker 2: you know, Steph's big time if we'll show up. And

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Speaker 2: he showed up and was running routes and you know,

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Speaker 2: back in home North Carolina and can kind of from

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Speaker 2: that point on, I feel like, you know, man, it's

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Speaker 2: uh you're looking forward to getting with him on the

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Speaker 2: field and see him to do his thing, and he's

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Speaker 2: done his thing time and time again. You know, some

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Speaker 2: games he's not getting the ball as much as you

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Speaker 2: know a receiver will want to, and he's still trying

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Speaker 2: to block hard and keeps the energy up and breaking

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Speaker 2: the team down and motivating me. And I think it's just, Uh,

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Speaker 2: He's meant the world to me, And I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: every time I go out there with him and a

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Speaker 2: player like him, I just don't take that for granted.

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Speaker 2: And looking forward to you'll seeing him in playoff football,

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Speaker 2: I think, yes,